You get home from the store and put your inexpensive bouquet in your vase but it just doesn't look right. Somehow it seemed fuller and prettier in the store. Dress it up with local foliage.

A cheap bouquet is a great value when it comes to freshening up your living space but sometimes when you get it unpacked and in the vase it just doesn't look as full and lively as it did when it was tightly wrapped in the store. Rather than give up on the cheaper arrangements or upgrading to the more expensive ones, you can harvest from around your home to fill in the bouquet. At the frugality blog FrugalUpState they've put together a guide to using clippings to fill in your bouquet using everything from Queen Anne's Lace—a weed in nearly any locale—Hosta leaves, and other common plants.